Months ago, a friend returned a piece of tupperware she’d borrowed, full of cookies. She flashed a southern smile and said, “you know! Never return a dish empty!”
Have you ever heard of that? It’s gone full throttle now and it may be the best tupperware tradition I’ve never heard of. When she got sick, I returned the tupperware full of chili. When she baked one too many cookies, I got mine back with a variety of sea salt chocolate chip cookies. Sometimes, it’ll just be a little chocolate or tart on the bottom. Often, it’s leftovers that you’ve run out of containers for. “I’m sending this back to you with West African peanut soup, enjoy.” Or, “my boyfriend brought back a mountain of cookies from his friend’s holiday party, please take them, I’m cramming them in here.” When I got sick last week and had no interest in coughing over dinner preparations, I remembered we had a tupperware full of carrot-ginger soup. SCORE.
It always feels so special to receive something, especially something home-cooked, and the tupperware tradition is also a good way to remember to actually return the darn things.
Are there any other tupperware rules out there? Have you ever heard of this one?
